Daisy Miller
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast
Salem Cove, 1916
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
1985.64.33

"The young lady meanwhile had drawn near. She was dressed in white muslin, with a hundred frills and flounces, and knots of pale-coloured ribbon. She was bare-headed; but she balanced in her hand a large parasol with a deep border of embroidery; and she was strikingly, admirably pretty. 'How pretty they are!' thought Winterbourne, straightening himself in his seat, as if he were prepared to rise."


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